MOGG, Edwardexhibiting all the various Alterations & Improvements complete to the Present Time. The Strangers Guide to London and Westminster, Published by Edward Mogg, No.51 Charing Cross, January 1st, 1826., London, - Hand-coloured engraved plan, dissected and mounted on linen, list of hackney coach fares to verso, housed within original paper slipcase, with publisher's label, rubbed and scuffed. The plan shows the limits of the City of London in red; the sight of the Bethlem (or Bedlam) Hospital in St George's Fields, which when opened in 1815 contained no glass in the windows due to the "disagreable effluvias peculiar to all madhouses", although it was furnished with a library and a ballroom for the inmates. Also depicted is the gradual construction of Sir Robert Smirke's remodelling of the British Museum. The building site was at the time one of the largest in Europe, the work taking some 25 years to complete.Edward Mogg (fl.1803-1860) was a cartographer, engraver, and publisher, active in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Rather unusually for the time he not only drew his own maps, but also engraved them. The business was mainly based upon the production of pocket travel guides and maps. Scale: 4 inches to 1 statue mile.

ALKEN, Henry |Ideas, Accidental and Incidental To Hunting and Other Sports; London: Thomas M'Lean, 1826-30. - First (Best) Edition, Early IssueThe Mishaps of a Maladroit Equestrian On The HuntAnd Coaches Out of Control"Have You Any Idea Which Way The Hounds Went?ALKEN, Henry. Ideas, Accidental and Incidental To Hunting and Other Sports.; Caught in Leicestershire, &C. London: Thomas M'Lean, n.d. [1826-1830]. First edition, early issue, with plates dated 1826-1830 and watermarked 1831-32. Upright folio (14 1/4 x 10 in; 366 x 253 mm). Letterpress title and forty-two hand colored soft-ground etchings with protective interleaves. Full forest green crushed morocco for Hatchards of London (stamp-signed) by either Riviere or Sangorski and Sutcliffe (ca. 1940), both of whom were Hatchards preferred binders. Occasional mild spots to margins not affecting imagery. A neat professional repair to closed margin tear on plate #6. Otherwise, a beautiful copy of the most desirable edition."This book was published in 1830. The humorous text is etched on the plates, which were originally issued serially in seven wrappers parts from 1827 [1826] through 1830. The letterpress title-page and publisher's issue binding make a 'book' out of what would otherwise be an assembly of prints" (Mellon/Podeschi)."First issued in upright folio [as here]. A fire consumed part of the stock, and the plates were reissued in oblong folio. These latter are inferior" (Tooley).The draftmanship is good, the colouring vivid, and the inscriptions on the plates are humourous. No copies in British Museum" (Schwerdt).Mellon/Podeschi 136. Tooley 36. Schwerdt I, pp. 17-18. Siltzer, p. 72.The Plates:1. I say my hearty fellow, have you any Idea where I can get a personal conveyance to Melton? (1826).2. They may call this pleasure, but I have an Idea that it has brought me into considerable trouble (1826).3. I say my good woman have you any Idea how they manage here to get a horse out of a brook? (1826).4. I say my good fellow have you not an Idea that this hunting is exceedingly dangerous? (1826).5. I say my dear fellow I have an Idea that it will make a considerable alteration to your personal appearance (1826).6. I say old furnace, have you any Idea how far it is to Melton? (1826).7. I say old buck, have you any Idea where I can find the hounds? (1827).8. I had not the most distant Idea of what was on the other side (1827).9. I shall soon lose all my Ideas (1827).10. I have an Idea he is going and with him my 150 Guineas (1827).11. I do not think he has an Idea left (1827).12. I say my heary chap have you any Idea what ought to be done in the present case? (1827).13. I have an Idea that I have got them rather too much together now (1827).14. I say my dear Sir, have you not an Idea that there is considerable danger in the present case? (1827).15. I say Captain, I have an Idea we have run foul of several things in our passage (1827).16. I say my clever feller, have you an Idea you can make this thing capable of progression? (1827).17. I have an Idea its ten to one but we are down now &c. (1827).18. I have an Idea my Lord that nothing but Time or a stone wall will stop them &c (1827).19. I say Bob you addent an Idea I could ride so well as you (N.D.).20. My high Tom, I have an Idea we shall soon be off, &c. (N.D.).21. I ave an Idea I an down now Tom (N.D.).22. I say Joe you addent no idea it was so deep, ad you, &c. (N.D.).23. I say my buck you avent no Idea where the Ounds are, ave you (N.D.).24. I say my boy we ave got some Ideas about the Unting now avent we (N.D.).25. You can have no Idea what a magnificent day I have had (1830).26. By George Harry, I have an Idea that the thing is not quite so easy as I anticipated (1830).27. My good fellow I have an idea that I shall be right on the top of you (1830).28. I have an Idea that this is a situation that this of considerable difficulty (1830).29. I have an Idea that this is a most important and effective Fall (1830).30. My dear fellows I should be extremely sorry to speak of any Country with disrespect but I have an Idea that the water he [Attributes: First Edition]

Reid, Thomas; Edinbugh, Honorary Member Of The Worshipful Company Of Clockmakers, LondonTreatise Of Clock And Watchmaking: Theoretical and Practical Printed for John Fairbairn, Edinburgh; James Duncan, London; and J. Cumming, Dublin, Edinburgh 1826 - Bound by the Byzantium Bindery in 3/4 red Morocco with Jemma Lewis marbled boards, title tooled in gold on the spine, hand sewn period headbands, period endsheets. A scarce and desirable First Edition in Very Good+ or better condition in a Fine binding, pages and trimmed plates slightly soiled, early facsimile of plate xv present; The masterpiece of Thomas Reid (1762 - 1823) , practicing watchmaker and one of the most celebrated Scottish clock makers. His "Treatise on Clock- and Watchmaking" was one of the most popular and best written horological works of the period [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Scott Sir Walter]WOODSTOCK; Or The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-One. By "The Author of Waverley, Tales of the Crusaders," &c. Edinburgh Archibald Constable and Co. 1826 - 3 volumes. First Edition, with all half-titles present. 8vo, contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards, the covers with borders tooled in blind, the spines with raised bands, gilt stopped, separating the compartments which are elaborately decorated with full gilt emblazoned panels incorporating dense border tools and central ornamental tools, two maroon morocco lettering pieces to each volume, stamped in gilt, blue end-leaves. xvi, [second half-title], 315; [iv], 332; [iv], 370 pp. A handsome set, beautifully preserved in its original contemporary calf bindings, internally, very clean, and with a little evidence of age, the contemporary bindings unusually bright and as fine. A SCARCE AND EXCELLENT WORK. This set with all half-titles as is often not the case. Sir Walter Scott was considered to be the inventor of the historical novel and the success of his Waverley series was immediate and long lasting throughout the English speaking world. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

RADCLIFFE, Anne.Gaston de Blondeville, or the Court of Henry III. Keeping Festival in Ardenne, A Romance. St. Alban&#146;s Abbey, A Metrical Tale; with Some Poetical Pieces. To Which is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author, with Extracts From Her Journals. London: Henry Colburn 1826 - First edition. Four volumes. 12mo. Bound without the half titles called for in volumes three and four only, thus: (iv), 132, 186; (iv), 399, (1); (iii-vi), 375, (1); (iii-v), vi, (2), 331, (1) pp. Near contemporary brown half calf over marbled boards, spine flat with double gilt ruled compartments, gilt titled black labels, plain endpapers, old ownership inscriptions of one Mrs Edward Flowers to the free endpapers of each volume, further inscriptions of a W.L. Taylor to upper edge of title pages to the third and fourth volumes partially shaved. Two of the volumes with old notes to rear endpapers. Margin of one leaf (pp. 90/91) in volume one torn with loss though not affecting text, small hole to one of the front endpapers in volume three, light wear to extremities of the bindings, a very good set. First written in 1802, this the first edition was published posthumously, Radcliffe having died in 1823. As well as being hugely influential as a female writer, her work also helped define the genre of the Gothic novel. The work is prefixed with a memoir of the author&#146;s life and appended by the long poetical work St. Alban&#146;s Abbey, the latter two-thirds of volume four comprises her "Miscellaneous Poems". Wolff, 5680.

DENHAM, Major Dixon and Captain Hugh ClappertonNarrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824, by Major Denham, Captain Clapperton, and the late Dr. Oudney Cummings, Hilliard & Co., Boston 1826 - First American edition. 255;104;112pp., 3 maps (two folding), one folded plate. Original quarter cloth and papercovered boards with printed paper spine label. Rebacked, slight wear to the label, old library label contemporary with the book on the front pastedown, owner's signature dated 1842, small tears on the title page, stain and old paper repair on a couple of pages, still a pleasing near very good copy. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

BEETHOVEN, Louis (Ludwig) v.:Quatuor pour deux Violons, Alto et Violoncelle composé et dedié a Son Altesse Monseigneur le Prince Nicolas Galitzin Lieutenant Colonel de la Garde de Sa Majesté Impériale de tout les Russies . Oeuvre 127. No. 2351 - Propriété des Editeurs - Pr. 3 Fl. 36 kr. Mayence chez les fils de B. Schott (c. 1826). Set of parts. - Folio. Title, pp. 2-13, (1) p. (blank); title, pp. 2-12, (1) leaf (blank); title, pp. 2-11, (1) p. (blank); title, pp. 2-11, (1) p. (blank). Lithographic title,engraved music (pl.-no. 2351). Sewn, no binding; in modern cassette. Later issue (see Weinhold in: Dorfmüller S. 258) of the first edition (Mainz imprint, with puiblisher's address in Paris, without 2 blank leaves after title of violin 1 / thus Hirsch). The full score appeared later but still in 1826. In 1822 the Russian prince, Nikolai Galitzin, wrote to "Monsieur Louis van Beethoven a Viennes" and requested "un, deux ou trois Nouveaux Quatuors". With the first of the three Galitzin-Quartets Beethoven began immediately on completion of the 9th Symphony in 1824 (he could count on the preliminary work carried out during the previous two years), and in March 1825 he dispatched the full score to St. Petersburg. Already, on 6th March, the Schuppanzigh Quartet had performed the premiere, although of moderate quality. The composer himself saw the problem not so much in a technique that was too demanding, as lying in the work's structure which had made playing together more difficult given the short amount of time for rehearsal. The "blurring the difference between the primary and the secondary parts, and the playing with alternate attraction and repulsion have become important elements of the concept" (Caeyers p. 727). The composer had even set out the sketches in four parts (although he used to outline his symphonies in only one part), and he insisted that the first edition of the parts and that the full score of later quartets were published simultaneously (for op. 127, for example, they were separated by 3 months, before this it might have been years), in order that the comprehension of the complex structure would be made easier. A few markings with pencil. Green fore-edges. Slightly browned throughout and in places finger-stained. Old handwritten pagination relating to an old "sammelband". Kinsky/Halm p. 385; Dorfmüller pp. 18, 232, 258, 350; Hirsch IV, 399; coll. Hoboken 2, 511; BHB J Van der Spek op. 95; cf. cat. Munich 265.

DAUBENY (Charles)A Description of Active and Extinct Volcanos: with remarks on their origin, their chemical phenomena, and the character of their products, as determined by the condition of the earth during the period of their formation. Being the substance of some lectures delivered before the University of Oxford, with much additional matter London: Printed by W. Phillips, 1826. First edition, xx, 466, [2]pp., engraved frontispiece lightly offset onto title, 2 engraved maps (1 folding), illustrs., in the text, several small neat library stamps, occasional foxing and some light browning, orig. boards, neatly rebacked, printed paper title label to spine. Daubeny studied at Magdalen College, Oxford under Dr. John Kidd. In 1819, in the course of a tour through France, he made the volcanic district of Auvergne a special study, and his Letters on the Volcanos of Auvergne were published in The Edinburgh Journal. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1822. By subsequent journeys in Hungary, Transylvania, Italy, Sicily, France and Germany he extended his knowledge of volcanic phenomena; and in 1826 the results of his observations were given in the present work.

BRØNDSTED, PETER OLUF.Voyages dans la Grèce accompagnés de recherches archéologiques, et suivis d'un aperçu sur toutes les entreprises scientifiques qui ont eu lieu en Grèce depuis Pausanias jusqu'à nos jours. 2 volumes. L'Imprimerie de Firmin Didot, Paris 1826-1830. Small folio (42x27,5 cm) and large 4to (37x26 cm), on 2 types of paper (volume. 1 "En papier vélin, in fol.", volume 2 "En papier fin"). XX+(1-129) + XXII+(131-)314 pages. 62 engraved illustrations, of which 30 are plates (plates no. 11, 19, 20, 21 & 27 are double-plates). Most engraved illustratrions with protective tissue paper. 4 illustrations are handcoloured. Untrimmed in publishers printed boards (Bauzonnet, Paris). Bindings with shelfwear to edges; corners bumped. Spine-ends somewhat worn. Surfaces of bindings browned.. Brunet I,1273. First edition, all published. Pioneering work on Greece with focus on archaeological aspects by the Danish archaeologist Peter Oluf Brøndsted (1780-1842), who travelled and worked in Greece (then still under Osmannic occupation) from 1810 to 1813. He participated in excarvations in Athens and elsewhere in the country. It took him more than a decade to get the first volumes of his account published, but he succeeded in getting it out in both a German and a French version - in a worthy, state-of-the art bibliophile publication. Lack of fundings caused the magnificent work - planned in eight volumes - to remain a torso. Brøndsted is thus considered a pioneer in modern classical archaeology, where the field work is considered a precondition for theoretical studies. ** Outstanding set. Volume 1 with inscription from Brøndsted: "Deres Höihed Prinds Christian Frederik Prinds af Danmark underdanigst fra Forfatteren, Paris , den 28. Januar 1826". Volume 2 with the signature of Danish early 20th century sculptor Utzon-Frank on verso of front board. *** The Danish crown prince Christian Frederik (from 1839 king Christian VIII) was Brøndsted's benefactor and shared eagerly the latter's interests in Greece. The prince was a keen collector of Greek antiques and must have appreciated Brøndsted's book sincerely

Ranking, JohnHistorical Researches on the Wars and Sports of the Mongols and Romans: In which Elephants and Wild Beasts were Employed or Slain And the Remarkable Local Agreement of History with the Remains of Such Animals Found in Europe and Siberia London: For the Author. Very Good. 1826. First Edition. Full Calf. Wear & bumps to fore-edge corners.; Early 20th century rebacking with modern morocco title label & gilt date stamp to foot; large fold out map, ten plates, some folding; marbled edges. ; 4to; xv, 516 pages .

Ranking, JohnHistorical Researches on the Wars and Sports of the Mongols and Romans: In which Elephants and Wild Beasts were Employed or Slain And the Remarkable Local Agreement of History with the Remains of Such Animals Found in Europe and Siberia London: For the Author. Very Good. 1826. First Edition. Full Calf. Wear & bumps to fore-edge corners.; Early 20th century rebacking with modern morocco title label & gilt date stamp to foot; large fold out map, ten plates, some folding; marbled edges. ; 4to; xv, 516 pages .

Audubon, John James.Labrador Falcon, Plate CXCVI [from: Birds of America]. London, R. Hawell, 1826-1838.. Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, printed on J. Whatman Turkey Mill watermarked paper dated 1835. 955 x 640 mm.. The famous depiction of a Falcon from the "Birds of America" by the world-famous French-American naturalist and painter John James Audubon (1785-1851), which was purchased at a Christie's auction for $11.5 million in March 2000, setting a world record for the most expensive book ever sold (surpassed only by the 1640 "Psalm Bay Book", sold for $14.2 million in November 2013). Very good color, with the back of the upper bird a subtle charcoal, beaks and feet of both birds a pale blue wash, slight limited spotting to the background, slight cast on the edge, and minor thumbing, three edges of the sheet gilt from when it was bound.

Scotland - Architecture - Holyroodhouse - Engravings)Historical and Descriptive Account of the Palace and Chapel - Royal of Holyroodhouse J. Cunningham & J.& J. Johnstone, Edinburgh Scotland 1826 - 21 pages; with 8 engravings, collated complete; including: the frontispiece dedication with the arms of Alexander, Duke of Hamilton, the Heritable Keeper of the Palace of Holyroodhouse; title page with the Ancient Horologe in the Royal Garden; the Palace, west front; from the Royal Garden; the east front; the interior of the quadrangle; the state room; the chapel - royal west front; the interior looking east; at back is letterpress descriptive text to accompany the plates as well as material on the history of the palace and chapel - royal; the paper large-margined; approx. 8 3/4" x 11 1/4" size; bound in the original illustrated and printed beige paper-covered boards; old tissue-guards still present; spine paper chipped away at top and bottom, edges of spine frayed; binding soiled and worn, plates foxed in the outer margins, with no or light intrusion into the plate areas; one plate page with long (3") marginal tear, not into the plate mark or image; a text page with brown spot, about 1 1/2"; overall and offset; in generally good condition and of interest for the architectural history of this famous royal landmark outside of Edinburgh, still maintained as the official residence of the British monarch in Scotland. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

[Chinese school].Album with rice paper paintings. [China, late 18th century].. Album of 11 Chinese gouache paintings of noble ladies on rice paper. Ca. 19 x 30 cm each, mounted on Chinese wove paper with blue silk borders. Contemporary cloth.. The paintings show eleven Chinese courtesans dressed in lavish gowns and robes wearing brightly coloured lotus shoes, seated at the table or reclining, performing various kinds of handicraft (weaving, spinning, needlepoint), smoking, etc. Courtesan albums, especially early ones, are considerably rarer than their botanical and tradesmen counterparts. These paintings share similarities with those acquired in 1826 by Franz Josef I, Emperor of Austria and reproduced by Payer-Thurn in "Chinesische Miniaturen aus dem Leben einer chinesischen Dame" (Leipzig 1924). - Occasional wrinkling or even tears to rice paper; some foxing to backing paper. Provenance: Acquired in the East by Henry Boyle Byrne (1787-1807), who drowned in the Bay of Calcutta (cf. Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 43 [2002], p. 63), but sent the set home to Patrick Byrne of Philadephia, PA; then by descent through the family; last at the family home, The Woodlands, in Clopper, MD (built by Francis Cassatt Clopper in 1810). Includes handwritten note of provenance by a family member.

[Barker, Matthew Henry]. Illustrated by George CruikshankGreenwich Hospital, a Series of Naval Sketches, descriptive of the Life of a Man-of-War's Man London: James Robins, 1826. First Edition. Quarter Morocco. Very Good. 4to. (28 by 20 cm, or 11 by 9 inches.) Twelve hand-colored engraved plates plus sixteen textual woodcuts. Cohn 53. Contemporary morocco over boards. Leather is very rubbed and scuffed, and boards have wear, with paper laid on lifting in a few minor spots. Interior is tight and mostly clean -- there is some scattered light soiling -- and plates themselves are bright and crisp.

[Barker, Matthew Henry]. Illustrated by George CruikshankGreenwich Hospital, a Series of Naval Sketches, descriptive of the Life of a Man-of-War&#39;s Man By an Old Sailor London: James Robins, 1826. First Edition. Quarter Morocco. Very Good. 4to. (28 by 20 cm, or 11 by 9 inches.) Twelve hand-colored engraved plates plus sixteen textual woodcuts. Cohn 53. Contemporary morocco over boards. Leather is very rubbed and scuffed, and boards have wear, with paper laid on lifting in a few minor spots. Interior is tight and mostly clean -- there is some scattered light soiling -- and plates themselves are bright and crisp.

[BENEVOLENT SOCIETY]Report of the Committee of the Benevolent Society of New South Wales Sydney: Monitor" Press, 1826. Duodecimo, 24 pp., some foxing particularly to the title and last page; very good in twentieth-century "Mackaness morocco" Relief of the poor in 1820s Sydney. Early Sydney printing from the press of the Monitor. The Benevolent Society was set up &#39;to relieve the Poor, Distressed, the Aged, and the Infirm, and thereby to discountenance, as much as possible, Mendicity and Vagrancyâ€¦&#39;. One of the Society&#39;s most important institutions was the Asylum on George Street, near the old Sydney Burial Ground, demolished in 1901 to make way for Central. The Society was a veritable who&#39;s who of Sydney, with Governor Darling and his wife as patrons, and a committee that included Alexander Berry, Gregory Blaxland, Samuel Marsden, Ralph Mansfield, and William Bland (the last as "Surgeon"). The report confirms that although the Society had had some reverses, a high point had been the visit of the Darlings to the George Street Asylum, after which all of the inmates were given a dinner of roast beef, plum pudding and &#39;Colonial Beer.&#39; Other iniatives include help with replacing horses and boats to deserving tradesmen, the establishment of a Dispensary, and a decision that all fines for public intoxication be given to the Society by the police - the current quarter has netted an impressive Sixty Spanish Dollars. The work also includes the Asylum Rules, the general accounts, and a list of life members. The work was printed by Arthur Hill who was active as a publisher in Sydney from 1826-33. A bon vivant, sometime actor, and, together with his wife Ann, tavern owner, Hill arrived in Sydney as a convict on board the Mary in 1819. In 1826 he became the printer of the new Sydney paper the Monitor (edited by E.S. Hall), a paper which played a very important part in the political and social struggles of the time and was on the side of Wentworth and the Australian. Hill only remained involved with the Monitor for less than a year, but it was during this time that he also published the Reverend Threlkeld&#39;s very important Specimens of a Dialect. Hill is listed as subscribing one pound to the Society.

[CONVICTS] PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL&#39;Result of an Examination... of the Heads of 148 convicts on board the convict ship England...&#39; [in] The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany Vol. IV Edinburgh: October 1826 - November, 1827. Octavo, a little toning to the pages but generally good; contemporary green half calf, spine banded and gilt, a little bumped. Full year&#39;s run of this journal, which includes a fascinating article on the phrenological experiments - the first of their kind - carried out on board the convict ship England in the spring of 1826. The article is entitled: &#39;Result of an Examination, by Mr James de Ville, of the Heads of 148 convicts on board the convict ship England, when about to sail for New South Wales in the Spring of 1826&#39; (pp. 467-71). In his youth De Ville (1777-1846) worked as the assistant to a sculptor, and this expertise with plaster-of-paris led to him being asked to make phrenological casts, and he soon immersed himself in the newly emerging practice, writing pamphlets and lecturing. His reading of the heads of the convicts on board the England was one of his great successes: the navy surgeon on board, one Dr Thomson, hosted De Ville for his experiment in the spring of 1826, at the suggestion of Mr Wardrop of London. The article notes that &#39;Mr De Ville furnished [Thomson] with a distinct memorandum of the inferred character of each individual convict, and pointed out the manner in which the dispositions of each would probably appear in his general conduct on the passage. The desperadoes were all specifically noted, and a mode of treatment to prevent mischief suggested. One man in particular was noted as very dangerous, from his energy, ferocity, and talent for plots and profound dissimulation. His name was Robert Hughes.&#39; Thomson kept a log during the voyage which was deposited in the Victualling Office, and the present article details some events from this log, including a plan by Hughes and his co-conspirator Thomas Jones to seize the ship and run it for South America. Needless to say such forethought was very pleasing to Thomson, and the article also includes his single-page letter written from Sydney on 9 October 1826, with his note that the convicts &#39;were going to rip up the poor doctor like a pig.&#39;.

BLAKE, WilliamIllustrations of the Book of Job Ã¬BlakeÃ­s Most Widely Known AchievementÃ®BLAKE, William. Illustrations of the Book of Job. Invented & engraved by William Blake, 1825. [London: Published by the Author, and Mr. J. Linnell, 1874].One of 100 sets printed on india paper. Folio (sheets: 20 x 14 inches; 510 x 350 mm. engravings 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches; 209 x 158 mm). Line-engraved title and twenty-one line- and stipple-engraved plates by and after Blake. Also with an additional letterpress title-page, not issued with the book. Evidence of the word proof on the lower edge of engravings number 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 18 and 20.Bound in quarter reverse calf over black cloth. Spine lettered and ruled in gilt. With black and red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Corners a bit bumped, and cloth lightly scuffed. Sheets mounted on stubs. A bit of very light foxing to some of the sheets, generally not affecting engravings. A fine, strikingly clean copy of Ã¬BlakeÃ­s most widely known achievementÃ® (Keynes).The engravings were commissioned by John Linnell on March 25, 1823. Despite the date 1825 on the engravings, the plates were not actually issued until March 1826. The entire edition consisted of 315 sets: 150 Ã¬ProofÃ® sets on India paper and sixty-five on French paper were printed in March 1826, at which time the word Ã¬ProofÃ® was removed from the plates and 100 sets were printed on drawing paper (see Bentley). BlakeÃ­s original copperplates remained in the possession of the Linnell family, and as late as 1863, Linnell was offering for sale sets of the India-paper and French-paper issues. By 1874 these must have been sold, as a further 100 sets of the engravings were printed at that time (the present copy is from this set). No more pulls were taken between 1874 and 1919, when the copperplates were given by Herbert Linnell to the British Museum.Linnell's son wrote "My father considered the plates at the last [1874] were as good as they ever were, for the work being cut by a graver, and not etched, it is durable- and is not worn by the printing as is the case with an etching." (Bentley Books, p. 523).Bentley 421A. Binyon 105-126. Russell 33.HBS 65634.$32,500

ATKINSON, JamesAn Account of the State of Agriculture & Grazing in New South Wales London: J. Cross, 1826. Tall octavo, with a coloured folding frontispiece and four aquatint plates (three in colour), & the rare large folding map by J. Cross, half-title, engraved bookseller&#39;s ticket (G.F. Cruchley) tipped in, some offsetting; an excellent untrimmed copy in the original printed boards a little darkened at spine; in an attractive tan calf book-form box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. With the Sydney panorama. A famous rarity and a remarkably attractive copy: this is the special issue of a title that is extremely uncommon in any form, complete with the extra large folding map and the panoramic coloured view of Sydney. The highly decorative map is dedicated to Captain Phillip Parker King, who had just completed his cartographic work on the vessels Mermaid and Bathurst. The first book on Australian agriculture, it was written by a noted early settler, father of the novelist Louisa Atkinson, and first husband of Charlotte Barton, author of the first Australian children&#39;s book. Atkinson&#39;s account of the agricultural and pastoral frontier, based on several years&#39; personal experience, is at once a practical guide and a descriptive survey of the agricultural districts and large establishments. A remarkably attractive book, it is well illustrated with aquatints of very fine quality. The splendid folding frontispiece, one of the best early printed views of Sydney, is probably based on the painting by Richard Read now in the National Library of Australia. Another of the plates is important as the earliest published ground-plan of an Australian house, offered by Atkinson as appropriate to the requirements of a pioneering agriculturist. Broadbent (The Australian Colonial House) suggests that Atkinson&#39;s design was modelled on Oldbury, the house that he had built in the early 1820s. Rebuilt in 1828, it is now the oldest surviving house in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. The other three hand-coloured aquatints show scenes from an "exploring party" of two settlers and three Aborigines, one of the latter in European clothes. presence and industry of civilised menâ€¦&#39; (An Account, p. 7). Through his own farming endeavours as well as his writing - in particular this seminal work - Atkinson was &#39;trying to raise the efficiency of farming in New South Wales; ploughing competitions, stock breeding, cheese making and dingo eradication all claimed his attentionâ€¦ The Agricultural and Horticultural Society regarded it as a judicious and ably written treatise, and awarded him a gold medal&#39; (ADB). This copy was sold by the Mapseller and Publisher G.F. Cruchley, and has his elaborate advertising ticket on the front paste-down. Cruchley was a successor to the cartographer John Cary and, the ticket notes, was associated with Arrowsmith.